I wholeheartedly agree. I was lucky enough to chance into a "project-based learning" alternative program in Jr. High, where we had fewer, longer class periods a

I wholeheartedly agree. I was lucky enough to chance into a "project-based learning" alternative program in Jr. High, where we had fewer, longer class periods and freewheeling, long-term multi-discipline assignments. Although I performed poorly in traditional academics, my belief in my creative capacity and industriousness—acquired during this period—has never left me, and forms the basis of the autodidactism that has facilitated my career.